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Cultural workers' performance of expertise on social media Nov 2015

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際際滷s from my paper presented at University of Middlesex 13.11.15 and University of Salford 16.11.15

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Cultural workers performance of expertise on social media Karen Patel Birmingham City University
While some professionals defined their backgrounds as providing invaluable arts expertise, many of the public participants questioned the knowledge of the professionals, referring to them as self-appointed experts. This was supported by the fact that many of the experts interviewed, acknowledged that they knew little about arts practice outside their specialism Jancovic (2015:7)
Signalling expertise Candace Jones (2002) Signaling Expertise: How Signals Shape Careers in the Creative Industries Institutional context institutional and economic context of signals formal and informal structures and enforcement mechanisms Signalling content identity (aesthetic style) performance (exhibiting requisite skills) relationships (career relevant networks) Signalling strategies status enhancement (amplifying your signal to be heard above competitors) reputation building (type and pattern of relations pursued) impression management (strategically amplifying, reducing or deflecting signals)
Cultural workers' performance of expertise on social media Nov 2015
Expertise is therefore a social relation where a particular actor has authority over another actor through their possession of a particular form of knowledge: the way a doctor has authority over the patient for example. Possession of this knowledge results from the experts situation in a particular epistemic community and his or her enculturation with that communitys knowledge culture Prince (2010:6)
Rules of Art (1996) Illusio Collective belief in the game (p.230) Who Created the Creators? (1993) What is called creation is the encounter between a socially constituted habitus and a particular position that is already instituted or possible in the division of labour cultural production (p.98) Bourdieu
Cultural workers' performance of expertise on social media Nov 2015
Cultural workers' performance of expertise on social media Nov 2015
Cultural workers' performance of expertise on social media Nov 2015
Performance of expertise on social media Association through platform specific functions - #, @, likes Potential for public endorsement by people/institutions Networking
Power of the platform Temporal Structural Ownership We argue that algorithms are always/already ideological (Mager, 2012), in the way of all mediating technology (Postman, 1992) because they operate for particular interests (such as Facebooks capital expansion) and have been developed through different histories of power. (Skeggs and Yuill, 2015:12)
Summary Expertise as socially constituted also applies to expertise performances on social media, but through the affordances of social media platforms Part of the illusio in a new guise online? Expertise performances are mediated through platforms and the corporations behind them
Thank you karen.patel@bcu.ac.uk http://karenpatelresearch.wordpress.com @KarenPatel

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Cultural workers' performance of expertise on social media Nov 2015

  • 1. Cultural workers performance of expertise on social media Karen Patel Birmingham City University
  • 2. While some professionals defined their backgrounds as providing invaluable arts expertise, many of the public participants questioned the knowledge of the professionals, referring to them as self-appointed experts. This was supported by the fact that many of the experts interviewed, acknowledged that they knew little about arts practice outside their specialism Jancovic (2015:7)
  • 3. Signalling expertise Candace Jones (2002) Signaling Expertise: How Signals Shape Careers in the Creative Industries Institutional context institutional and economic context of signals formal and informal structures and enforcement mechanisms Signalling content identity (aesthetic style) performance (exhibiting requisite skills) relationships (career relevant networks) Signalling strategies status enhancement (amplifying your signal to be heard above competitors) reputation building (type and pattern of relations pursued) impression management (strategically amplifying, reducing or deflecting signals)
  • 5. Expertise is therefore a social relation where a particular actor has authority over another actor through their possession of a particular form of knowledge: the way a doctor has authority over the patient for example. Possession of this knowledge results from the experts situation in a particular epistemic community and his or her enculturation with that communitys knowledge culture Prince (2010:6)
  • 6. Rules of Art (1996) Illusio Collective belief in the game (p.230) Who Created the Creators? (1993) What is called creation is the encounter between a socially constituted habitus and a particular position that is already instituted or possible in the division of labour cultural production (p.98) Bourdieu
  • 10. Performance of expertise on social media Association through platform specific functions - #, @, likes Potential for public endorsement by people/institutions Networking
  • 11. Power of the platform Temporal Structural Ownership We argue that algorithms are always/already ideological (Mager, 2012), in the way of all mediating technology (Postman, 1992) because they operate for particular interests (such as Facebooks capital expansion) and have been developed through different histories of power. (Skeggs and Yuill, 2015:12)
  • 12. Summary Expertise as socially constituted also applies to expertise performances on social media, but through the affordances of social media platforms Part of the illusio in a new guise online? Expertise performances are mediated through platforms and the corporations behind them